Although I go back to Amsterdam at least every once a year, my last visit to Amsterdam taught me in particular about the origin of my visual preferences. It's always a great discovery to be able to make sense of yourself. It became clearer than ever that things I do are heavily influenced by the design-scape (graphic, architecture, typography, product) of Holland. Such influences are not so much of a conceptual one, but rather stylistically. I see design in Amsterdam, and they resembled myself.
I think I can be, and I also tend to be, quite critical of Japan and London, but being critical towards Amsterdam or Holland is a harder task for me. It's quite interesting to think why that's actually the case.
